For Mahorka, both 4T Thieves and Cognition Delay recently unleashed The Shipping Forecast and Mostly Dreaming, respectively. Both albums reveal abstract electronics and downtempo layers with Abdicant and Pandacetamol remixing tracks on 4T Thieves’ album. Let’s just say that the connections are boundless.
The connections are boundless
Everything is connected in some way, shape, or form. 4T Thieves (aka Nik) is the Kahvi Collective label head, while Jeremy Rice (aka Abdicant, Curious Inversions) and UK artist Paul Alexander (aka Pandacetamol, Fluffy Inside) are Kahvi Collective label mates. For Mahorka, both 4T Thieves and Cognition Delay (the collaboration between Jeremy and Paul) recently unleashed The Shipping Forecast and Mostly Dreaming, respectively. Both albums reveal abstract electronics and downtempo layers with Abdicant and Pandacetamol remixing tracks on 4T Thieves’ album. Let’s just say that the connections are boundless.
4T Thieves’ releases continue to expand and redefine IDM’s subgenres such as ambient, downtempo, hauntology, glitch, drone, and ethereal soundscapes—The Shipping Forecast features 9 original tracks and 5 remixes. Cascading and flowing atmospheres open the album with “Rainbows and Blues” slowly drifting while “Trials and Tribulations” and “The Storm” shed emotively charged particles and nostalgic flutter across wide open vistas. Blurred melodic fibers shutter on “The End of the Road” and its dreamlike momentum leads as a highlight complimented by the title tracks’ punctuating beats and swirling sonic debris. The future inside the present, and the past inside the now, 4T Thieves elicits wide-angled lenses that have no definitive start or end points—his sounds are simply surreal.
Room of Wires remixes “The Long Way Home” with densely layered synths and a harder edge as “Light and Dark” is re-envisioned courtesy of Abdicant’s “Violet-eared” mix—a goosebumps inducing beauty of electronica that all of humanity should absorb. Pandacetamol’s remix of “Light and Dark” reveals additional contrasting elements (light and dark) in a saccharine BOC-infused soundtrack. “The Long Way Home” (Weldroid remix) dives full-throttle into industrial mechanics and synth-thudding pulses as Tim Koch closes the album with a refreshing and lively rendering of “The Long Way Home,” its smattering of found-sounds and broken beats leave us wanting more.
Tethered audio spheres persist ::
Cognition Delay’s aptly titled Mostly Dreaming is a sonic behemoth of its own kind. Taking fractured downtempo streams and dreamlike recreations to another level, ten tracks and a slew of meandering ambient-electronica are on the burner. “Leika’s Heartbeat” is a pulsing and driving piece of curiosity; its mood feels dark but ultimately soothing as “Glow Coma” accentuates the sweet nature of drifting drums and drenched dronescapes. Midway through, and the duo find minimized technoid peripherals on “Eyes Down” and “Pump Nervosa” where slices of earlier Monolake productions come to the life. All interconnected, closing tracks “Carry Me To Consciousness” and “Lucidity” feel like lost FSOL artifacts, their distant acidic groove pulling on The Orb-like structures and undulating harmonies. An illusionary, spellbinding, and delicately woven sonic tail to fall asleep to in an instant.
4T Thieves’ The Shipping Forecast and Cognition Delay’s Mostly Dreaming are both available on Mahorka.
